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checkpatch: extend author Signed-off-by check for split From: header
Checkpatch did not handle cases where the author From: header was split into multiple lines. The author identity could not be resolved and checkpatch generated a false NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF warning. A typical example is commit e33bcba ("tee: add support for session's client UUID generation"). When checkpatch was run on this commit, it displayed: "WARNING:NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF: Missing Signed-off-by: line by nominal patch author ''" This was due to split header lines not being handled properly and the author himself wrote in commit cd26149 ("checkpatch: warn if missing author Signed-off-by"): "Split From: headers are not fully handled: only the first part is compared." Support split From: headers by correctly parsing the header extension lines. RFC 5322, Section-2.2.3 stated that each extended line must start with a WSP character (a space or htab). The solution was therefore to concatenate the lines which start with a WSP to get the correct long header. Suggested-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <[email protected]> Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-mentees/[email protected]/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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